Malala Yousafzai
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Biography
"I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard."
"In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond."
"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."
"I want to make this world perfect."
"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
"I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."
"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow."Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons."Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013."
"I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban."
"Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."
"He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
"I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs"
"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither eastern or western, it is human"
"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."
"I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taliban’s edict."
"In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential."
"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."
"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.' But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'"
"It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed."
"The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives."
"There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word."